Tomohiru Nishino wrote: > On Nov 15, 2004, at 6:24 AM, Chris Menzel wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:18:09PM -0600, dcbns wrote: >> >>> I'm having problems getting LyX (1.3.5, precompiled QT) on Mac OS X >>> (10.3.6) to work with X11 programs like xdvi and gv. >> >> >> Hi Dave, >> >> In case you are not aware of this option, as an alternative to xdvi >> and gv you might try using TeXShop as your previewer, as it is OS X >> native and renders beautiful PDF >> (http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html). To do so, set >> "Preferences -> File formats -> PDF (pdflatex)" in LyX to >> "/Applications/TeXShop.app/Contents/MacOS/TeXShop" and use "View -> >> PDF (pdflatex)" to view your document. To have TeXShop refresh >> automatically when you have LyX update via "View -> Update -> PDF >> (pdflatex)", click the "Automatic Preview Update" box in the "TeXShop >> -> Preferences -> Preview" dialog. > > One minor correction. If you do it this way, the > "View->Update->PDF(pdflatex)" doesn't work, and every time you try to > preview a document will cause a new instance of TeXShop to run (you > will get multiple copies of TeXShop running, and will see multiple > TeXShop icons on the dock). (At least that is what happens on my > machine.)
Hi Tomohiru, thanks for chiming in. The method I suggested works just fine for me; no multiple copies. As a remark later in your message suggests, I believe that, to update your PDFs, you are using only "View -> PDF (pdflatex)" rather than "View-> Update -> PDF (pdflatex)", as I'd suggested. Updating that way WILL in fact run a new copy of TeXShop if you configure things according to my suggestion. > Instead, in "Preferences->File formats->PDF(pdflatex)" set the viewer > field to: > > open -a "TeXShop" That is certainly more "OS X"-ish, and in light of the above, it is marginally preferable since it saves you a mouse gesture (though it works out the same for appropriate keystroke macros, which is my preferred method of previewing/updating). > Then, do as Chris suggests and use "View->PDF(pdflatex)" to preview > documents. Almost, but not quite, what I'd suggested! :-) > This way, the automatic update works as well. > > By the way, if you want to use Preview as your viewer, all you have to > do is set the Preferences to: > > open -a "Preview" > > The major drawback is that Preview does not support updating of the > document that is already open, so each time you want to see changes > you have made, you have to close the previously open document in > Preview. That would, for me, be "major" in the sense of "show stopper"! -chris
